Hotfixes: June 5, 2020

Blizzard EntertainmentJune 6, 2020

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

June 5, 2020

WoW Classic

More world buffs have been added to the Advanced Combat Log and will now be recorded when starting a raid encounter.

June 4, 2020

WoW Classic

When using Advanced Combat Logging, the presence of various world buffs (e.g. Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer) will now be consistently recorded when starting a raid encounter.

Players who are interacting with their mailbox or bank can no longer be interrupted by trade requests.

June 2, 2020

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items

Gushing Wound (Corruption Effect) damage over time effect has been reduced by 35%.

Developer’s note: While we try to avoid changes like this outside of regular balance patch intervals, the changes we've made to the Corruption system to make Corruption more targetable and attainable risks turning a rare but powerful Corruption into the optimal choice in nearly every situation. With this reduction in damage, Gushing Wound will remain reasonably powerful in all situations, but will no longer be the most efficient source of damage per Corruption in all situations.

Fixed a bug that caused the lockout time of interrupted spell schools to increase when the Ineffable Truth Corruption effect ends.

June 1, 2020

Quests

Bowmistress Li should once again be available on Serpent's Spine to offer the quests "Falling Down" and "Nope".

May 28, 2020

Items and Rewards

Preserved Contaminant and Gouged Eye of N’Zoth can now be applied to items acquired from weekly rated PvP quests.

Player versus Player

[With regional restarts] Corrupted Gladiator's Spite on use effect now keeps the afflicted enemies in combat for the full duration of its effect.

Fixed an issue where Mantid Fire Bomb damage was scaling incorrectly against players.

WoW Classic

Black Lotus now spawns more often and can appear in many new locations.

Black Lotus cannot be seen on-screen or on the minimap by players who are dead, unless they have Herbalism at level 300 or higher.

In Warsong Gulch, several locations outside of the intended play area have been blocked off.

May 27, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City

N’Zoth the Corruptor

Fixed a bug that could cause Spike Tentacles to repeatedly target a player with multiple casts of Pain Spike in succession rather than randomizing targets.

May 21, 2020

Items and Rewards

Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve

Fixed a bug that caused Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve to despawn only the most recently spawned Eye of Corruption instead of all active Eyes of Corruption.

Preserved Contaminant

Preserved Contaminant can now be applied to all items that have been cleansed of Corruption prior to this week’s maintenance.

Player versus Player

Temple of Kotmogu

Fixed an issue that caused Orbs of Power to drop when taking the gateway created by Corrupted Gladiator’s Breach trinket.

Quests

The quests within the Shadowbarb Drone questline can no longer be completed with Party Sync activated.

Developers’ note: Issues using Party Sync to complete this questline could cause progress on the Aqir Hatchling faction to reset.

May 20, 2020

Items and Rewards

Preserved Contaminant

Preserved Contaminant can now apply a Corruption effect to Season 4 crafted items, excluding items that cannot be Corrupted such as engineering goggles (Azerite) and alchemist stones (trinkets). Crafted items still cannot be initially Corrupted when they are crafted.

May 19, 2020

Items and Rewards

Echoes of Ny'alotha

MOTHER now offers several Preserved Contaminants, a new item to purchase with Echoes of Ny’alotha. Preserved Contaminants allow for a specific Corruption effect to be applied to any uncorrupted item that can be Corrupted or any items that have been cleansed after this week’s restart. The inventory of available Preserved Contaminants will change twice each week, mirroring the Assault cadence, and will cycle through all available Corruption effects at various levels of potency.

May 18, 2020

Classes

Demon Hunter

Fixed a bug that prevented Haste from reducing the global cooldown of Darkness.

Items and Rewards

Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” and “The Final Truth”

[With regional restarts] The number of Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” and “The Final Truth” quest items required for the rank 10–15 cloak quests has been reduced.

Ranks 10 and 11 now require 4 Torn Pages (was 6 and 8).

Ranks 13–15 now require 2 Torn Pages (was 4, 6, and 8).

Developer’s note: This change will make each of the quests completable in a single Horrific Vision if a player completes all objectives within the instance. This should help newer characters catch up quicker to their peers.

Echoes of Ny'alotha

[With regional restarts] Echoes of Ny’alotha now drop after completing the quest “Beginning the Descent” and obtaining Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve.

[With regional restarts] Echoes of Ny’alotha are much more abundant than before. The droprate of Echoes of Ny’alotha and the cost to purchase items with Echoes of Ny’alotha has been increased by a factor of 5.

Developer’s note: When these changes take effect, a Major Assault will award 625 Echoes of Ny’alotha, whereas before this change they awarded 125. The cost to purchase an Essence from MOTHER will also increase by the same factor, from 500 to 2500. If you are planning to purchase a Rank 3 Essence with Echoes of Ny’alotha that you’ve already earned, you should do so now, before these costs change.

Developer’s note: This is to provide an additional source of access to Horrific Visions that does not require completion of Assaults.

Developer's note: After the weekly restart, characters can start building up Echoes of Ny’alotha. The Preserved Contaminants Corruption vendor items that will use this currency is in the final testing phases and we hope to have them available from MOTHER as soon as possible.

May 14, 2020

Items and Rewards

The vendor sell price of Enchanter's Umbral Wand has been reduced by 40%.

May 13, 2020

Creatures and NPCs

Rare elite creatures found in Nazjatar with War Mode enabled now drop 1 Nazjatar Battle Commendation.

May 12, 2020

WoW Classic

Fixed a bug that caused some players to be returned to an incorrect location when leaving a War Game.

May 11, 2020

Quests

The turn in location for “Supplies from the Rajani” and “Supplies from the Uldum Accord” now appear on the world map.

May 7, 2020

Items and Rewards

Faceless Mask of the Burned Bridge, Faceless Mask of the Daredevil, Faceless Mask of Dark Imagination, Faceless Mask of the Long Night, and Faceless Mask of the Pained can no longer be sold to a vendor.

May 5, 2020

Character

Players can now restore one deleted character every 7 days (was 15 days).

Dungeons and Raids

Freehold

Ring of Booty

(Finally) fixed an issue that could cause Trothak's Flailing Sharks to move too quickly when players used certain trinkets or area-of-effect spells as they became active.

WoW Classic

Fixed an issue that caused players to immediately accept a Zul'Gurub instance lockout if they were in a party with a player who defeated Gahz'ranka.

May 4, 2020

WoW Classic

Fixed a bug that prevented players from receiving the correct amount of Cenarion Circle reputation from killing the Abyssal High Council while in a raid.

May 1, 2020

Achievements

The Perfectly Timed Differential blueprint is no longer required for Junkyard Collector.

The Bitten Hand debuff required for You Can Pet the Dog, But… can no longer be removed through immunity effects.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City

N’Zoth the Corruptor

Fixed an issue where Basher, Corruptor and Spike Tentacles could get stuck under the ground if they are stunned when Psychus is slain in Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.

April 28, 2020

WoW Classic

In the Americas region, battleground holidays now start at the same time for all realms.

Developers’ note: While this is a change to how original WoW worked, with battlegroups of realms including only realms that were in the same time zone, it allows us to treat US-East and US-West realms as a single battlegroup for the purposes of matchmaking. Players on US-East realms will now begin and end their battleground holidays three hours later than before.

Players can now restore deleted characters on locked realms, if the character is applicable for restoration.

Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause fewer than all four Dragons of Nightmare to spawn as intended.

Many item enchantments now stack with certain items that provide an identical buff.

Many item enchantments that previously took up a hidden buff slot no longer consume a hidden buff slot.

April 27, 2020

Classes

[With regional restarts] Mistweaver Monks’ Rising Mist can now extend a heal-over-time effect by up to 100% of its original duration.

Developers’ note: When we buffed Rising Mist with the intention of making melee Mistweaver a viable playstyle, players discovered that stacking extreme amounts of haste and cooldown reduction can reach a breaking point of infinite duration on Mistweaver Monks’ heal-over-time effects. Even though it’s exciting to see people discover new builds and interactions, the sheer power level in this case is likely to have a negative effect on the healing game for the remainder of Battle for Azeroth. This change is intended to prevent the infinite extension, while allowing Rising Mist to still enable an effective melee playstyle.

April 22, 2020

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that prevented Heart of Darkness (Azerite Trait) from being reduced by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players.

Developers’ note: Now that the Hall of Fame for Ny'alotha is full and the raid is available on Mythic difficulty to cross-realm groups in all regions, we're undertaking an additional tuning pass aimed at smoothing out the difficulty curve on Mythic for groups that are beginning or continuing progression through Ny'alotha.

April 20, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City

Drest’agath

[With regional restarts] Reduced the health of Eye of Drest'agath, Maw of Dest’agath, and Tentacle of Drest’agath by 8% on Mythic difficulty.

Il’gynoth

[With regional restarts] Organs and Bloods’ health reduced by 5% on all difficulties.

[With regional restarts] Reduced the damage requirement to free an allied player from Touch of the Corruptor’s mind control effect by 10% on all difficulties.

Developers’ note: Now that the Hall of Fame for Ny'alotha is full and the raid is available on Mythic difficulty to cross-realm groups in all regions, we're undertaking an additional tuning pass aimed at smoothing out the difficulty curve on Mythic for groups that are beginning or continuing progression through Ny'alotha.

WoW Classic

Gurubashi enchantments from Zul'Gurub will no longer apply to characters who are not the correct Class or are lower than level 60.

April 7, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City

Resolved an issue that could cause Horrific Hemorrhages to spawn in incorrect positions on Mythic difficulty.

Blackrock Foundry

Operator Thogar

Resolved an issue that prevented all of the passengers from disembarking a train before and during the encounter.

March 31, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ashvane Warden

The ground visual for Lockdown should remain visible when Projected Textures is disabled in the System Settings menu.

Ashvane Warden

The ground visual for Lockdown should remain visible when Projected Textures is disabled in the System Settings menu.

Items and Rewards

Legion Raids and Dungeons

[With regional restarts] Legacy loot rules are now in place for Legion raids and dungeons.

Developers’ note: Standard encounters drop an amount of loot scaled by the amount of players in the raid, which results in fewer pieces for players who defeated encounters in small groups or as a solo player. In Legacy loot rules, raid and dungeon encounters will drop a fixed quantity of class-agnostic loot, regardless of the group size.

March 25, 2020

Battle Pets

Black Chitinous Plate should now drop more frequently from Skikx'traz in Uldum while the Aqir Assault is active.

Mounts

Malevolent Drone should now drop more frequently from Corpse Eater in Uldum while the Aqir Assault is active.

March 24, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Atal’Dazar

Priestess Alun’za

The ground visual for Tainted Blood should remain visible when Projected Textures is disabled in the System Settings menu.

Temple of Sethraliss

Spark Channeler

The ground visual for Call Lightning should remain visible when Projected Textures is disabled in the System Settings menu.

March 20, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City

Resolved an issue in which Adaptive Membrane was being removed after player-sourced absorb shields, unintentionally making the mechanic harder than intended.

Essences

Restrictions on acquiring role-specific Azerite Essences from MOTHER have been lifted.

Rank 3 tanking, healing, and damage-specific Essences are now grouped together and can be purchased with Echoes of Ny’alotha when at least one is unlocked on a character.

Spark of Inspiration, Unwavering Ward, Strength of the Warden (obtained from Horrific Visions)

Touch of the Everlasting, Spirit of Preservation, Breath of the Dying (obtained from reputation with Rajani)

Blood of the Enemy, Artifice of Time, Sphere of Suppression (obtained from Battlegrounds)

Essence of the Focusing Iris, Life-Binder’s Invocation, Anima of Life and Death (obtained from Mythic Keystone dungeons)

Developers’ note: This update to the new Echoes of Ny'alotha system is intended to make Essences much more available to your characters whose specializations put them in different roles (tanking, healing, damage). A side-effect of this change is that even a single character now has a way to obtain these off-role Essences, and can either use Echoes to purchase them from MOTHER or use the original means of acquisition.

March 18, 2020

World Quests

Emissary Quests turn-ins no longer award 10 bonus reputation when a Contract is active. No other quest turn-ins are affected.

Developers' note: This seemingly random change was done to address an obscure bug that arose after the introduction of Echoes of Ny'alotha this past week. There is an internal limit on the number of different rewards that a single WoW quest can offer, and adding Echoes into the mix could push some Emissary quests past that cap in certain situations, preventing those quests from being turned in. Raising that long-standing limit is beyond the scope of a hotfix, and removing the conditional 10 bonus rep was the least disruptive fix in the short term.

March 16, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City

Resolved an issue that caused players to get locked inside the Chamber of Heart if both Carapace of N'Zoth and N’Zoth the Corruptor encounters were defeated but other bosses undefeated on Mythic difficulty.

N’Zoth the Corruptor

Tank-specialization characters should no longer be targeted by Paranoia on all difficulties.

Developers’ note: Paranoia’s coordination requirements when tanks are involved is a bit higher than we’d like. This fix prevents tanks from being targeted altogether, preventing awkward moments where a ranged character would need to run a long distance to meet up with a tank partner.

Mythic Keystone Dungeon

Tidesage Council

Blessing of the Tempest should now be more visible when active on Galecaller Faye.

Blowback damage reduced by 20%.

Slicing Blast damage reduced by 20%.

Waycrest Manor

Reduced the rate at which members of the Heartsbane Triad gain energy from the Focusing Iris, resulting in an increased delay before Dire Ritual is cast.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items

[With regional restarts] All equipment rewards from Horrific Visions are now Corrupted.

Developers’ note: We’ve heard from many players that Corrupted Items were not obtainable enough, limiting their ability to play with the system and its inherent tradeoffs. This change will substantially increase the number of Corrupted Items reliably earned each week, allowing players to choose from among a greater selection of Corrupted pieces and enjoy those that work best in a given situation.

Twisted Appendage no longer benefits from buffs like Power Word: Shield or Earthen Wall.

Twisted Appendage and Infinite Stars can no longer trigger more than once every 12 seconds during player versus player combat.

Heart of Azeroth

[With regional restarts] Players who have Rank 3 Azerite Essences on at least one character can now more easily acquire those Essences on other characters on the same account via a new currency: Echoes of Ny’alotha. MOTHER will offer any eligible character a Rank 3 Essence for 500 Echoes of Ny’alotha each. Any player who is eligible to purchase at least one Essence from MOTHER will now receive Echoes of Ny’alotha from a wide range of activities in current content:

Developers’ note: The general goal here is that doing Assaults and associated Horrific Visions should provide enough to get at least one Rank 3 Essence of your choice per week. Doing other content you like (PvP, dungeons, or raids) will increase that significantly, depending on the level of content you’re doing. Of course, Essences can still be earned normally via their associated activities, so if you want to get your Essence of the Focusing Iris directly via Mythic Keystone dungeons and then buy others from MOTHER, that’s now an option. Within a couple of weeks of hitting max-level on your alt, you should be able to obtain your preferred Essences by playing the game as you usually would.

Please note: Echoes of Ny’alotha may appear to replace Azerite in the Emissary and PvP reward panes, however, it does not. Echoes of Ny’alotha are always additive with existing rewards. We believe that it is more important to release this update with a reward display issue than hold the change for a fix. We expect to fix the display issue in the next week or two.

Characters are now required to have Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve to queue for Raid Finder Wing 4, “The Waking Dream”.

Developers’ note: Due to the mechanics of both Wing 4’s boss fights, players who do not have the legendary cloak equipped are immediately mind controlled, burdening other players in their raid by not contributing to the kill. By enforcing this new restriction, Raid Finder groups will be set up for success and have a much higher chance of completing “The Waking Dream”.

Reduced the total radius and expansion rate of Creeping Anguish on Raid Finder difficulty.

Developers’ note: These quality-of-life changes should increase the damage output of Raid Finder groups, specifically empowering them to bring down Psychus before it casts Manifest Madness and effectively becomes unkillable while wiping the raid.

Fixed an issue that prevented the Gouged Eye of N’Zoth from adding sockets to some raid weapons with a set Corrupted Effect (e.g. Eyestalk of Il’gynoth).

Fixed a bug that prevented Ineffable Truth (Corruption Effect) from reducing the cooldown on some abilities that have charges.

Demon Hunter: Demon Spikes, Fracture, Throw Glaive

Monk: Guard, Healing Sphere, Renewing Mist

Mage: Phoenix Flames

Warlock: Dark Soul

WoW Classic

The Item Restoration self-service system now retains information on disposed of Uncommon and Rare quality items for 30 days (was 7 days for Uncommon quality items, 15 days for Rare quality items). This hotfix is not retroactive and will not apply to any items for which the retention period has already expired.

March 2, 2020

Classes

Hunters can again tame Juggernaut pets within the Siege of Orgrimmar raid instance.

[With regional restarts] Dark Ritual’s debuff effect now increases by 4% per stack (was 2% per stack) on all difficulties.

Developers’ note: Especially as raids’ overall damage output increases, many groups are spending a disproportionate amount of time dealing with Skitra’s illusions, and often skipping other mechanics entirely. This change is aimed at making the overall pace of the fight more consistent regardless of raid damage.

Developers’ note: We’ve seen extensive use of player immunities to avoid the consequences of certain raid mechanics, and while we want to allow player utility to function wherever possible, we’re wary when specific class compositions feel required. The changes to both Ra-den and N’Zoth are intended to make a wider range of raid compositions feel viable on Mythic difficulty.

Developers’ note: Especially since the removal of the unique cap on Vessels, we’ve seen a lot of feedback about the inventory clutter of multiple Vessels. By removing the cap on Coalescing Visions, players should now feel free to buy Vessels from Wrathion as needed, rather than stockpiling them in bags.

Cache of the Black Empire will award 12,500 Coalescing Visions instead of a Vessel of Horrific Visions and 2,500 Coalescing Visions.

Memory Cube can now only be used in non-instanced areas.

Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented Manifesto of Madness’ on-use effect from working in Mythic and Mythic Keystone Dungeon difficulties.

Corrupted Items

Twilight Devastation's effectiveness has been reduced in situations where it strikes more than 5 targets. It has been changed as follows:

Deals normal damage on up to 5 targets.

Deals 50% reduced damage to targets 6 through 10.

Shrinks in radius each time it damages a target above 5, causing it to disappear after hitting 10 targets.

Heart of Azeroth

The Formless Void’s Rank 3 (Essence) Minor Power should no longer break Rogues out of stealth.

Corrected an issue with Memory of Lucid Dreams (Essence) where Frost Mages using Glacial Spike and an instant cast Flurry could sometimes have their icicle buff count and visual display not match.

Player versus Player

Heart of Azeroth

Corrected an issue where Vision of Perfection (Essence) Rank 3 Minor Power’s effect was removed when entering an Arena match.

N’Zoth Assaults

Added a portal to exit the Pools of Power after defeating Vil'raxx in Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

Developers’ note: Timewalking is meant to be largely gear-agnostic, allowing players with different progression and even different levels to group together. We’ve generally added hidden modifiers to offset the power of special systems like Legion’s artifact weapons while still allowing them to function, but had not done so for recent Battle for Azeroth systems, causing large imbalances in power between endgame players with Corruption and Essences.

Developers’ note: These changes should improve Restoration Druid’s raid healing output, without much impact to their already strong capabilities in dungeons and Arena.

Hunter

Marksmanship

[With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.

Mage

Frost

[With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.

Monk

Windwalker

[With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.

Damage unchanged in PvP.

Rogue

Outlaw

Resolved an issue that could prevent Blade Flurry from damaging some types of creatures in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

Shaman

Enhancement

Damage of all abilities increased by 3%.

Warlock

Demonology

[With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic Keystone Dungeons

Explosive Affix

Explosive Orbs again immediately put players into combat.

Explosive Orbs can again be tab-targeted.

Developers’ note: When testing the Awakened affix, we found that Explosive Orbs could sometimes prevent players from entering or exiting Ny'alotha Spires and Rifts if their party was in combat inside the instance. To solve this issue, we changed them to not place players in combat immediately. However, this had the unintended side effect of breaking player expectations around tab-targeting Explosive Orbs, so we're reverting their threat-generation behavior and trying an alternate solution.

Ny’alotha, the Waking City

Azeroth’s Radiance now properly restores Sanity to players who are under the effects of an Immunity spell on all difficulties.

Vexiona

Cultists now have their health adjusted based on raid size, up to a maximum 10% reduction for 10-player raids on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Ra-den the Despoiled

Resolved an issue that allowed Re-origination Anchors to be attackable with area of effect spells.

Horrific Visions

Research into Synchronized Mind Stabilizer has improved, now always reviving the player with at least half their Sanity.

The number of Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” quest items required for the rank 13-15 cloak quests has been reduced.

Rank 13 now requires 4 Torn Pages (down from 6).

Rank 14 now requires 6 Torn Pages (down from 12).

Rank 15 now requires 8 Torn Pages (down from 18).

Developers’ note: This change should make all the quests completable by most players in the week and not require players to feel the need to save as many keys week to week. Along with our other quality-of-life changes, this should help newer characters catch up with their peers.

[With regional restarts] Up to 4 Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” quest items can now drop in Horrific Visions from objectives on the rank 7-11 legendary cloak upgrade quests (max of 2).

Developers’ note: Players will need to clear more than two side areas in one run to get more than two pages. The rank 13-15 quests will still drop a max of 2 pages, only from Lost Area objectives.

Coalescing Visions

Coalescing Visions now drop in higher numbers from Assaults and Daily Quests.

Resolved an issue that could prevent a character from gaining progress towards earning the Season 4 seasonal mount and Vicious Saddles.

February 18, 2020

Items and Rewards

Fixed an issue that prevented Lady Jaina Proudmoore and N’Zoth the Corruptor from dropping mounts when defeated on Mythic difficulty.

Developers’ note: Last week we made a change to increase the mount rewards from defeating these bosses from 1 to 2. However, the hotfix caused an issue that prevented any mounts from dropping, so we’ve reverted it back to the previous iteration as a temporary fix (1 mount rewarded). These bosses will drop 2 mounts with restarts in each region.

Quests

Eligible players can again turn in “Supplies from the Rajani” or “Supplies from the Uldum Accord” for Paragon Cache rewards.

WoW Classic

Fixed a performance issue resulting from communications initiated by the Real Mob Health add-on. Please uninstall the current version of this add-on.

With these mounts becoming quite rare once Shadowlands comes out, taking 20 weeks or more for a full Mythic raid group to get the mounts felt excessive.

Horrific Visions

Reduced the health of enemies for groups of 2 or more that include at least 1 healer.

Developers’ note: We expected that groups with a healer would gain efficiency by taking more risks, but we've found that this gain is offset by healers shifting focus from damage to healing as group size increases, so we're adjusting creature health accordingly.

Stormwind

Alleria Windrunner

Darkened Sky now drains 40 Sanity (was 60 Sanity).

When the Trade District bonus objective is complete, Chains of Servitude is now cast once during the fight (was twice).

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items

Fixed an issue which prevented items from being forged with the +12 Corruption version of Ineffable Truth (Corruption Effect).

Player versus Player

The upcoming Teeming Islands Brawl has been replaced with Temple of Hotmogu.

Temple of Hotmogu Brawl’s bonus movement speed and haste have been increased to 50%.

WoW Classic

Fixed an issue that could cause the player to disconnect from the game while waiting in a long queue for a Battleground.

February 13, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic Keystone Dungeons

Mindrend Tentacle

Mind Flay

Damage reduced by 25%.

Ravenous Fleshfiend

Tear Flesh’s bleed damage reduced by 20%.

Samh’rek, Beckoner of Chaos

Cascading Terror

Damage reduced by 40%.

Fear duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).

Cast frequency reduced.

Developers’ note: This ability works well as a dispel challenge, but its damage and disruption has proven to be more punishing than we’d like.

Urg’roth, Breaker of Heroes

Spirit Breaker’s damage reduced by 20%.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items

Rogues’ Detection no longer builds Echoing Void.

Heart of Azeroth

Changing a Minor Essence while The Crucible of Flame (Essence) is equipped in the Major Slot no longer causes Concentrated Flame to go on cooldown.

Quests

Saurfang is no longer present in Grommash Hold while players are on the quest "A Gift for the Warchief's Advisor".

WoW Classic

Blackwing Lair

Razorgore the Untamed

Fixed an issue where Nefarian's troops would sometimes continue attacking the group after Razorgore's eggs were destroyed.

February 12, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Operation: Mechagon – Workshop

Fixed an issue where Explosives could spawn in inaccessible locations when the Explosive affix is active on Mythic Keystone difficulty.

Thing from Beyond's damage is no longer increased by the corrupted player's Versatility.

Resolved an issue that could cause Twisted Appendage and Infinite Stars (Corrupted Effects) to break crowd control effects on players (e.g. Mages’ Polymorph).

Missions

Fixed a bug that prevented the new Visions of N’Zoth troops from counting towards Champion abilities.

Quests

"Aqir Instincts" and "Honing Instincts" no longer have their progress blocked by being in a raid group or when summoning or dismissing the Shadowbarb Hatchling. Kills made while in a raid group will still fail to grant experience to grow your Shadowbarb Hatchling.

Developers’ note: Players who return to H'partho Ardoros in Ramkahen will be automatically granted credit and can turn in these quests. Players can resume their questline the following day.

WoW Classic

Battleground scoreboards no longer list the enemy team until your entire team has clicked Enter Battleground. The scoreboard remains visible for everyone once the battleground has started.

February 10, 2020

Classes

Paladin

[Live with regional resets] Avenging Wrath may be activated if another Avenging Wrath is active (such as from Vision of Perfection).

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City

Wrathion, The Black Emperor

Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving loot if they did not generate threat during the encounter.

[Live with regional resets] Echoing Void damage has been reduced by 50%.

Echoing Void no longer deals reduced damage in PvP combat.

[Live with regional resets] Fixed a bug which caused Gushing Wound (Corrupted Effect) to extend its duration if it triggered on a target it was already active on.

[Live with regional resets] Reduced Gushing Wound’s damage by 15%.

[Live with regional resets] Surging Vitality’s Versatility value has been increased by 10%.

[Live with regional resets] Void Ritual’s stat bonus per stack has been approximately doubled at each rank.

Grasping Tendrils is no longer dispellable by Magic dispels and will no longer appear on players’ raid frame UI; it can still be removed by abilities that remove snares.

Developer's Note: We originally made this effect’s snare dispellable so that players could save each other if they were afflicted with it in unfortunate Void Zone-like circumstances. However, we've received feedback that in large-group environments, Grasping Tendrils’ appearance on raid frames could sometimes cause players to overlook more critical debuffs to dispel. We're making this change so players can better see Magic effects in their raid frames as significant debuffs that should be paid attention to and react accordingly.

UI

Fixed an issue that caused the Onyx War Hyena to appear in the Mounts tab of the Collection journal.

February 7, 2020

Items and Rewards

Fixed a bug where the Void-Touched Skull toy could be cast on players’ pets.

Previously unlocked Rune Matching difficulty levels no longer reset weekly; once a character has unlocked a difficulty level, it will remain unlocked.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City

Carapace of N’Zoth

Resolved an issue where Fury of N'Zoth could gain Mycelial Infusion while transitioning into the Den of Transfusion on Mythic difficulty.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items

Fixed an issue with some Corruption Effects scaling improperly during Timewalking instances.

Fixed an issue with Faralos, Empire’s Dream causing its Corruption Effect to not reliably hit large enemies.

System

MacOS

Players who have experienced crashes or freezes on MacOS systems can now change the Particle Density visual effects setting to “Disabled”. This may help users work around the issue while we investigate it further.

February 4, 2020

Characters

Character transfers and faction changes no longer set back progress on the Titan Research Archive.

Darkmoon Faire

Players who have the Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide in their inventory should no longer receive error messages after killing enemies in Mythic Keystone dungeons.

Darkmoon Arcade

Players who die on the HexSweeper board are now teleported near the Arcade console.

Players can now walk on top of flagged hexes without triggering them.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City

Ra-den the Despoiled

Void Eruption should no longer damage pets on all difficulties.

Decaying Wound’s damage over time effect no longer persists after the end of the encounter on all difficulties.

Ji-Kun, Ssinkrix, Qroshekx, Xaarshej should now retain their names when tamed.

Creatures and NPCs

Lalathin should now appear in all phases of Suramar.

Horrific Visions

Further reduced the health of enemies in Horrific Visions for players who enter the instance as a solo healer or tank specialization; healers will face enemies with 42% less health and tanks will fight enemies with 25% reduced health.

Developers’ note: We'd like players to be able to upgrade their legendary cloak without feeling like they have to change specialization. The difficulty of Horrific Visions adjusts dynamically based on party composition, but they're still a bit rough for solo healers and tanks, so we're making some tweaks to help those players out.

Iron Juggernauts summoned by Hunters in Siege of Orgrimmar now scale their levels to the summoning player.

Creatures and NPCs

Brinebeak Albatross is now properly classified as a Bird of Prey.

Lalathin has escaped her cage and can be found just outside Suramar.

Shadowclaw now looks more appropriate.

Shale Crawler, Frenzied Pterrordax, and Dreadtick Latcher are now the correct creature types.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny'alotha, the Waking City

Ra-den the Despoiled

Unstable Nightmare no longer damages pets on Mythic difficulty.

Items and Rewards

Fixed an issue that caused Guardian Druids to obtain the damage-dealer Essence Token of Death's Mark (Breath of the Dying) when using the Breath of Everlasting Spirit.

Revitalizing Voodoo Totem's effectiveness is reduced by 50% when used by non-healer specializations while engaged in combat with enemy players.

The Void-Twisted Titanshard will now trigger correctly from healing spells.

Corrupted Items

Twilight Devastation's visual effect can no longer be seen by friendly players except in the outdoor world.

Heart of Azeroth

Corrected an issue with Memory of Lucid Dreams (Essence) that caused Frost Mages’ icicle buff counter and visual display to sometimes not match up when using its on-use effect.

Quests

Fixed an issue that prevented completion of “Heroic Warfront: The Battle for Darkshore” for Alliance characters.

January 28, 2020

Classes

Hunter

Certain aqir creatures in Uldum should now be tamable.

Dungeons and Raids

Freehold

Damage dealt by Captain Eudora's Powder Shot reduced by 15% on all difficulties.

Ny'alotha, the Waking City

Shad’har the Insatiable

Increased Shad'har the Insatiable's health by 30% on Heroic difficulty.

Developers’ note: This change is meant to bring the encounter in line with the rest of the instance on Heroic difficulty.

N’Zoth the Corruptor

The Paranoia debuff can no longer be removed through immunity effects (e.g. Paladins’ Divine Shield) on all difficulties; damage and loss of sanity from Paranoia can still be temporarily avoided by using immunities.

A few of Exposed Synapses in N'Zoth's Mind have been moved a small distance.

Developers’ note: This quality-of-life change should help melee characters better reach Exposed Synapses during the encounter.

Items and Rewards

Cloaks no longer drop in Mythic Keystone end-of-run chests.

Corrupted Items

Flash of Insight (Corruption Effect) now correctly scales with the total Intellect value of the character.

Echoing Void damage reduced by 20%

Developer's Note: Echoing Void's design makes its damage fairly reliable and high in most combat situations. As it's less situational than some other Corruption effects, we feel it is doing too much damage per Corruption by comparison.

Sk’shuul Vaz

This weapon’s Obsidian Destruction (Corruption Effect) now divides its damage among targets struck and deals additional damage for each target struck, up to maximum damage dealt at 6 targets.

Damage against a single target has been increased to 700% of armor (was 175% of armor).

Fixed an issue which could cause Cache of Ny'alothan Treasures to display a tooltip indicating that it was Corrupted, even if it was not going to drop a Corrupted item. (The chance of your Cache item being corrupted has not changed.)

Fixed an issue which allowed Obsidian Destruction and Searing Flames to ignore Line of Sight on some targets.

Resolved an issue that caused crowd control that breaks on damage (Mages’ Polymorph) to be removed by Eye of Corruption damage.

Lesser Visions

Fixed a bug where the small chests found in the Lesser Visions weren't rewarding their Corrupted Mementos.

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that prevented PvP Talent weapon disarm effects (e.g. Rogues’ Dismantle) from correctly having diminishing returns on their duration when cast against players that were recently affected by other disarm effects.

Resolved an issue that prevented characters from earning the Dreadflame illusion after earning the Duelist: Battle for Azeroth Season 4 achievement.

World Quests

“Vuk'laz the Earthbreaker” should now properly get pushed to Horde players.

January 27, 2020

Achievements

Fixed a bug that prevented eligible players from receiving credit for It’s Not a Cult if a raid member died during the N’Zoth the Corruptor encounter on Normal or Heroic difficulties.

Creatures and NPCs

Credit for rare creatures in the Vale of Eternal Twilight and Vision of the Twisting Sands is now shared.

The Spirit Drinker creatures should no longer get stuck in an immune state.

The ground spell effect indicating Eye of Corruption's (Corrupted Effect) radius of effect is now easier to see on sloped terrain.

Lingering Psychic Shell

Now applies an absorb shield that prevents 80% of incoming damage, up to the amount of damage indicated on the item.

While inside Ny'alotha, the Waking City instance, the wearer’s Corruption Resistance increases the total amount of damage absorbed by up to 50%.

Developers’ note: Due to several issues with this trinket, we have changed its functionality to be more intuitive. The tooltip will be updated in a future patch to more accurately reflect the trinket's functionality.

Twisted Appendages (Corrupted Effect) can no longer be struck by area-of-effect attacks such as Mages’ Arcane Explosion.

Players should be able to discover Cataclysm Engineering recipes again from crafting recipes on that list.

Quests

Players are now able to perform the Nordrassil ritual during “Lunar Preservation” without breaking any rituals afterward.

WoW Classic

Quest credit for Elune's Blessing should now be granted more consistently.

January 24, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

N’Zoth, the Corruptor

Fixed a bug where Azeroth's Radiance could shorten its channel duration without the player casting or moving.

Azeroth's Radiance now resets its cooldown on a wipe and at the start of the encounter.

Developers’ note: This quality-of-life change should dispel confusion about needing to wait for the cooldown to clear before a subsequent attempt.

Horrific Visions

Fixed an issue wherein Emergency Cranial Defibrillation didn't heal the player while under the effects of Inquisitor Darkspeak's Convert.

Items and Rewards

Emissary equipment caches no longer reward cloaks during Battle for Azeroth Season 4.

The power of the following trinkets from Ny’alotha, the Waking City have been increased by around 10%: Vita-Charged Titanshard, Void-Twisted Titanshard, Humming Black Dragonscale, and Manifesto of Madness.

The damage absorb effect of the Void-Twisted Titanshard will now be consumed after most standard damage absorb effects.

Corrupted Items

Glimpse of Clarity will no longer interact with the Warlock ability Command Demon, or the Hunter ability Command Pet.

Lash of the Void

Lash of the Void’s (Corruption Effect) damage now scales with the item level of Unguent Caress, instead of the character's Attack Power.

Fixed a bug which caused Lash of the Void to trigger more often than intended, but it still strikes all targets in a cone in front of the user.

Heart of Azeroth

Corrected several issues with Destruction Warlocks using Vision of Perfection either not getting an Infernal to spawn on their target, or a real summoned Infernal to incorrectly have the lowered Vision of Perfection duration applied to it.

WoW Classic

Players in Alterac Valley with the Honorless Target buff will no longer grant loot.

January 23, 2020

Allied Races

Vulperas’ Bag of Tricks (racial) cooldown is now correctly modified by haste.

Creatures and NPCs

Lorewalker Cho should once again be visible to all players in Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

Fixed an issue where players on the quest “Reconstructing ‘Fear and Flesh’” who skipped all Corrupted Area objectives and completed a Lost Area objective first would not get 1 of their 2 Torn Page of "Fear and Flesh" for that run.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items

Damage dealt by Infinite Stars, Twisted Appendages, and Gushing Wound (Corrupted Effects) is now based on the item level of a Corrupted item, rather than scaling dynamically with Attack Power and Spell Power.

Developers’ note: Previously the damage dealt by these powers was modified by Attack Power and Spell Power, which meant that certain specialization abilities or random bonuses could cause drastic swings in their effectiveness. Infinite Stars in particular was too strong against single targets as a result of this and other factors. This change also adjusts Infinite Stars base damage accordingly, as the scaling method was one of the primary factors behind some of the extreme outliers we saw in our logs and from player feedback. Our goal with this change and other adjustments to Corruption powers is to improve parity in the effectiveness per point of Corruption of the different bonuses available on Visions of N’Zoth items.

Humming Black Dragonscale’s visual effect should no longer break some animations and will now appear as intended when mounted.

Quests

Dying during “Waking a Dreamer” can cause players to be unable to see Goldrinn and turn in the quest.

While D.I.S.C.O. may be fun for some, dancing is now prohibited within the vicinity of the Chamber of Heart teleporter.

Rugged Hyena Pelts now drop from all hyenas in Uldum as well as Amathet Hunters. Players with the Skinning skill will still be able to skin the hyenas for a guaranteed pelt, in addition to any that drop.

January 22, 2020

Achievements

You Can Pet the Dog, But… is now properly rewarded to all raid members who /pet Shad’har regardless if they or another player died during the encounter on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Allied Races

Allied Races characters that are not Death Knights no longer learn an unusable Acherus Deathcharger class mount at level 58.

Manapoof Link now properly has the option to teleport a player who has completed the Blackrock Depths Pet Dungeon to the entrance of Blackrock Depths.

Quests

Faceless Mask quests are no longer shareable.

War Mode once again grants the correct reward quest completion bonuses for daily quests offered during Visions of N’Zoth Assaults. The UI currently does not reflect the rewards granted, but we’re working on correcting it.

Fixed an issue that caused the Gift of N’Zoth’s visual effect to sometimes disappear when a character entered Orgrimmar, Stormwind, Uldum, or Vale of Eternal Blossoms. N’Zoth has not forgotten those who are loyal to him.

World Quests

Resolved an issue that prevented some players from receiving credit for the “Grand Empress Shek’zara” after defeating Grand Empress Shek’zara.

Players will now properly receive credit for defeating King Dazar for the “Kings’ Rest: Kingsguard” World Quest.

January 17, 2020

Achievements

Fixed an issue where a dead player's Damage Over Time effect could cause the raid to fail The Best of Us.

Auction House

Bids now display properly in the sell tab for caged pets.

Fixed a bug causing the quantity field to be empty when selling a non-commodity.

The “Uncollected” filter now filters owned battle pets as expected.

The “Upgrades Only” filter now correctly applies to wands and shields.

The "Usable" filter now filters profession-restricted items and owned toys as intended.

Purchasing an entire listing now displays the item count in the seller's auction list.

Players can now buyout an auction for which they are already the high bidder.

Fixed a bug that caused some mail from the Auction House to exclude expected attached gold.

Guild and community setting dropdowns no longer appear when they are grayed out.

Visions

Players should now find their Sanity draining more quickly after an extended period within Vision of the Twisting Sands and Vale of Eternal Twilight.

Fixed an issue that was preventing an iLvl 430 item from dropping when you had completed two objectives and the boss in a Horrific Vision. This item will be awarded to players on their next run if they satisfy these conditions.

January 15, 2020

Allied Races

Eligible players who earned the account-wide achievements The Mechagonian Threat and Rustbolt Rebellion on a Horde character can once again begin the process to unlock mechagnomes on an Alliance character.

Fixed an issue that prevented Prince Erazmin from appearing on Mechagon Island after completing the mechagnome Allied Race unlock storyline.

Classes

Attempting to burn the corpses of egg-infested bodies in Uldum will no longer remove Druids from Travel Form.

Zahra Sandstalker should no longer disappear for nearby players when someone accepts "To The Moon." Additionally, multiple copies will no longer show up.

Locating the anomalous source for “Deeper Into Darkness” now shares credit with all party members.

“Against Overwhelming Odds” now grants credit for slaying enemy players in Uldum when Assaults are active.

World

Players should no longer disconnect when traveling on the boat between Booty Bay and Gadgetzan.

WoW Classic

Alterac Valley

Spirit Guides in the starting caves now apply Honorless Target to the players they resurrect.

Developers’ note: We observed some behavior in Alterac Valley that can only be described as griefing—a violation of the In-Game Code of Conduct. If this had taken place in original WoW, it would have been seen as either a situation that needed to be fixed preventatively or a circumstance that called for account suspensions. We feel that the preventative solution is the more amicable one.

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